Getting started with Amazon Elastic Container Service

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Follow the console or ECS CLI walkthrough in our Developer Guide for step by step instructions on using Amazon ECS to run your first containerized application.

Core concepts

Step By Step Guides

7 STEPS

Run a Docker-enabled sample application on an Amazon ECS cluster behind a load balancer, test your application, and delete your resources.

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5 STEPS

Deploy a monolithic application to a Docker container, then decouple the application into microservices without any downtime.

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Reference Architectures

Microservices

Use Amazon ECS to implement microservices with native, managed AWS integrations.

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Microservices-Containers

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Batch Processing

Amazon ECS lets you run batch workloads with managed or customer schedulers on Amazon EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, or Spot instances.

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Batch-Containers

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Automated CICD Deployment

You can deploy code into containers running on Amazon ECS using AWS Developer Tools.

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CICD-Containers

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